How to get list of permissions in Yii2? - php

Question

I need somehow to get the list of existing permissions in my Yii2 application.
yii/rbac/DbManager as authManager is used.
And when trying to run:
$permissions = Yii::$app->authManager->getPermissions();
I receive list in which are permissions and routes:
Array ( [/admin-tools/*] => yii\rbac\Permission Object ( [type] => 2 [name] => /admin-tools/* [description] => Access admin-tools [ruleName] => [data] => [createdAt] => 1500542371 [updatedAt] => 1500542371 ) [/admin/*] => yii\rbac\Permission Object ( [type] => 2 [name] => /admin/* [description] => access admin extension [ruleName] => [data] => [createdAt] => 1500541632 [updatedAt] => 1500541632 ) [/group] => yii\rbac\Permission Object ( [type] => 2 [name] => /group [description] => [ruleName] => [data] => [createdAt] => 1502190828 [updatedAt] => 1502190828 ) ) [permission_admin] => yii\rbac\Permission Object ( [type] => 2 [name] => permission_admin [description] => [ruleName] => [data] => [createdAt] => 1500559417 [updatedAt] => 1502190927 ) [permission_hr] => yii\rbac\Permission Object ( [type] => 2 [name] => permission_hr [description] => [ruleName] => [data] => [createdAt] => 1500559479 [updatedAt] => 1500559919 ) )
I suppose there is another smarter way to get this data. Because yii2-admin module is able to get list of only permissions, but I don`t have any idea how to do this?.

Answer 1

The resulting
$permissions = Yii::$app->authManager->getPermissions();
is an array with all the permissions object content
if you need only name and description you can iterate over the array eg:
$permissions = Yii::$app->authManager->getPermissions();
foreach($permissions as $key => $perm){
echo 'name : ' . $perm->name . ' description : ' . $perm->description . <br />;
echo
}
you can check yii2 doc http://www.yiiframework.com/doc-2.0/yii-rbac-dbmanager.html
http://www.yiiframework.com/doc-2.0/yii-rbac-basemanager.html#getPermissions()-detail
could b you are looking for getPermissionsByUser()
http://www.yiiframework.com/doc-2.0/yii-rbac-dbmanager.html#getPermissionsByUser()-detail